Stewarts School
Lucan · Roll number 19032R
- Special school
- Moderate general learning disability
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 145
- +3 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +17%
- Up 21 from 124 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 47 / 98
- 32% girls
The Department of Education publishes only the number of pupils, girls and boys in each special school, not pupils by class, so this page has no class or class size figures. Pupils in special schools can be aged 4 to 18. All special schools
Pupils since 1993
Total enrolment each school year
Shaded: the last 10 years, 2015/16 to 2025/26. Until 2010/11 the Department listed special schools with mainstream schools; from 2011/12 they have their own list. Pupils on 30 September each year. Known data issues
Teachers
Teaching posts and special needs assistants (SNAs) at Stewarts School, 2018/19 to 2025/26.
Where these figures come from
The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates each special school its teaching posts and SNAs, and these are its figures as published each year. They're posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. The NCSE published no figures for special schools for 2020/21 and 2021/22. From 2026/27 it lists a principal and deputy who don't teach a class separately; earlier files don't say how they're counted. Known data issues
In 2025/26
25teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5.8 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 25
70 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 27 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 76 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2018/19
Teaching posts each school year. Point at a bar for its SNAs.
Dashed boxes: the NCSE published no figures for special schools for those years. Known data issues
Source: NCSE special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby
The special schools closest to Stewarts School, and the mainstream schools within 10 km that have special classes, measured in a straight line.
Nearest special schools
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stewarts SchoolThis school | – | 145 |
+16.9%
|
|
| 1 | Ballydowd High Support Special School1.8 km · Palmerstown, Co. Dublin | 1.8 km | 7 |
−22.2%
|
| 2 | Linn Dara Schools2.6 km · Dublin 10 | 2.6 km | 51 |
+155.0%
|
| 3 | Scoil Mochua2.6 km · Dublin 22 · Physical disability | 2.6 km | 69 |
+9.5%
|
| 4 | St Michaels Spec School4.5 km · Dublin 20 · Mild general learning disability | 4.5 km | 163 |
+5.2%
|
| 5 | ABACAS Special School for Children with Autism6.2 km · Dublin 24 · Autism | 6.2 km | 30 |
+87.5%
|
Special classes within 10 km316 classes in 169 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Divine Mercy Junior National School0.3 km · 2 autism classes | 0.3 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Divine Mercy Senior National School0.3 km · An autism class2 new classes in 2026/27 | 0.3 km | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Lucan Community National School0.3 km · 2 autism classes | 0.3 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Griffeen Valley Educate Together NS1.0 km · 2 autism classes | 1.0 km | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Lucan East ETNS1.0 km · 2 autism classes | 1.0 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Lucan Educate Together NS1.1 km · 2 autism classes | 1.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Neillstown N S1.3 km · 2 autism classes and an early intervention class2 new classes in 2026/27 | 1.3 km | 3 | 5 |
| 13 | St Peter Apostle Sen NS1.3 km · 2 autism classes | 1.3 km | 2 | 2 |
About this school
Inspection reports open on gov.ie, under the name the school had when it was inspected. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Mary Carrig
- Phone
- 012119121
- [email protected]
- Address
- Rosse Court Ave, Lucan, LUCAN, K78 K8W7
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- NCSE designation
- Moderate general learning disability
- Patron
- Stewarts Care Ltd
- School type
- Special school
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- South Dublin County Council
- Planning area
- Lucan
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. The designation is the need the NCSE lists the school as set up for; many special schools now take pupils with a wider range of needs. Known data issues
Data by year
33 school years from 1993/94 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 145 | 47 | 98 |
| 2024/25 | 142 | 43 | 99 |
| 2023/24 | 136 | 41 | 95 |
| 2022/23 | 129 | 39 | 90 |
| 2021/22 | 122 | 40 | 82 |
| 2020/21 | 115 | 37 | 78 |
| 2019/20 | 118 | 38 | 80 |
| 2018/19 | 121 | 37 | 84 |
| 2017/18 | 121 | 37 | 84 |
| 2016/17 | 122 | 37 | 85 |
| 2015/16 | 124 | 38 | 86 |
| 2014/15 | 127 | 43 | 84 |
| 2013/14 | 125 | 38 | 87 |
| 2012/13 | 125 | 41 | 84 |
| 2011/12 | 126 | 42 | 84 |
| 2010/11 | 126 | 42 | 84 |
| 2009/10 | 127 | 40 | 87 |
| 2008/09 | 127 | 42 | 85 |
| 2007/08 | 127 | 41 | 86 |
| 2006/07 | 126 | 42 | 84 |
| 2005/06 | 118 | 49 | 69 |
| 2004/05 | 125 | 48 | 77 |
| 2003/04 | 126 | 49 | 77 |
| 2002/03 | 127 | 53 | 74 |
| 2001/02 | 126 | 51 | 75 |
| 2000/01 | 124 | 51 | 73 |
| 1999/00 | 117 | 48 | 69 |
| 1998/99 | 121 | 55 | 66 |
| 1997/98 | 121 | 53 | 68 |
| 1996/97 | 114 | 45 | 69 |
| 1995/96 | 105 | 40 | 65 |
| 1994/95 | 103 | 41 | 62 |
| 1993/94 | 97 | 38 | 59 |